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From: phil@shl.com (Phil Trubey)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Rate of change vs thresholds.
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.190512.3937@shl.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 19:05:12 GMT
Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc.
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Here's a question for you network management gurus out there...

I'm wondering if there are any examples where you would want to monitor
the rate of change of some network variable rather than the absolute
value.  Eg. Typically people (or their network management stations)
monitor link utilization levels and want to be notified if the 
utilization rate ever hits a certain level (eg 60% or whatever
for an Ethernet network).  Have people found that there
are certain variables that they wished they could monitor the
rate of change of that variable (eg, how quickly the Ethernet
utilization level is changing)?

I'm just wondering if this is a useful feature or not.

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